Skin is our largest organ. What we apply on it matters. It digests everything we put on our body. Make right choices for your health, be conscious of the hidden toxic chemicals, that may be in cosmetics you use every day.

What Did You Feed Your Skin Today?

Skin is our largest organ.  What we apply on it matters. What you feed your skin matters.  It digests everything we put on our body.  Make right choices for your health. Be conscious of the hidden toxic chemicals that may be in cosmetics you use every day.

If you wouldn’t eat it, don’t put it on your skin.

Some beauty products contain carcinogens and endocrine-disrupting chemicals that increase breast cancer risk. Every single product you cut from your beauty ritual decreases the number and quantity of chemicals to which you’re exposed.

What to feed your skin?

1. Choose Frangrance-Free

So called, “fragrance” can hide behind its name even hundreds of chemicals — including hormone-disrupting phthalates. Choose products that are fragrance-free or that contain natural fragrances like essential oils.

2. How To Tell A Synthetic Ingredient?

Avoid products with DMDM hydantoin and imidazolidinyl urea; parabens or any word ending in “paraben”; “PEG” compounds and words ending in “-eth”; triclosan and triclocarban; triethanolamine (TEA); hydroquinone and oxybenzone.

3. Mani-Pedi Anyone?

I personally use and highly recommend Japanese P-shine for an elegant natural look and nourishment for your nails, however if you crave colours, choose a nail salon that uses only nail polishes free of the toxic formaldehyde, toluene and dibutyl phthalate.

4. Be Picky With Your Antiperspirant

A possible source of aluminum in breast tissue may be the use of underarm antiperspirants, so try to find an aluminum-free formula.  All natural deodorants are ideal choice.

5. Read Labels Carefully ~ Top Toxic Offenders To Avoid:

  • Anti-aging creams with lactic, glycolic, AHA and BHA acids
  • Hair dyes, especially permanent dyes
  • Liquid hand soaps with triclosan or triclocarban
  • Nail polish and removers with formaldehyde, DBP or toluene
  • Skin lighteners with hydroquinone

 

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Jitka Robinson, ALC is a NAMA ­registered Ayurvedic Health Counselor, holistic health and lifestyle coach, Kripalu yoga teacher, and certified Reiki therapist. It is her passion to blend Ayurveda, yoga and Reiki in her Ayurvedic consulting practice, holistic health coaching, and group educational workshops to make the healthy lifestyle and diet accessible to others. Jitka specializes in disease prevention, chronic stress and anxiety management, women’s health, digestive disorders, weight management, and seasonal cleanses.

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